Electric generator and distributer for medical treatment.



No. 686,859. Patented Nov. [9, l90l. E. L. MADDEN.

ELECTRIC GENERATOR AND DISTBIBUTER FOB MEDICAL TREATMENT.

(Application filed Mar. 2 8, 1901.)

(No Model.)

TATES 'A'TENT rricn.

EDT/VIN LYMAN MADDEN, OF KANAWHA, IOWA.

ELECTRIC GENERATOR AND DlsTRlBUTER FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT.

SPECIFICATTON forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,859, dated November19, 1901.

Application filed March 28, 1901- To a ZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, EDWIN LYMAN MADDEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kanawha, in the county of Hancock and State of Iowa, haveinvented a new and useful Electric Generator and Distributer for MedicalTreatment, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide a simple, durable, convenient, and efiicientapparatus for relieving human distress and suffering incident toimpaired circulation of the vital fluids and the low degree oftemperature occasioned thereby in diseased portions of the body thataffect the general health.

Heretofore nerve-currents have been stimulated by means of therapeuticalelectrization, and therefore I do not claim a new method of treatment,but improved means for accomplishing the purpose contemplated.

Hy invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combinationof parts, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 shows theforms and relative positions of all the parts combined as required forpractical use. Parts of the case in which the magnet is inclosed isbroken away. Fig. 2 is a bottom view, and Fig. 3 a transverse sectionalview, of one of the devices adapted to be manually operated to producefrictional electricity and a static charge in the magnet. Fig. 4 is anenlarged bottom view of one of the anodes connected with the magnet bymeans of an insulated flexible conductor for distributing a current toany part of a person to which the anode may be applied to stimulatenerve force, to increase circulation, and equalize the temperature ofthe person as required to restore a diseased and partially dormantmember of the body to its normal condition. Fig. 5 shows a modified formof my apparatus in which the anodes and friction-plates are jointlyconnected with the magnet in such a manner that when the frictionplatesand anodes are in contact with a person and simultaneously operated byhand to produce frictional electricity or only one of the plates and oneof the anodes so operated the body of theperson will be the field SerialNo. 53,263. (No model.)

through which a current will be established as required to affect theperson.

The letter A designates a case adapted for inclosing a magnet B, thatmay vary in size and weight as desired. Friction-plate holders O aremade of rubber, preferably flexible, that will bend as required to bepressed and rubbed against different parts of a person. They areprovided with elongated fixed ribs D, adapted for use as handles.

On the bottoms of the holders 0 are fixed plates D,made of silk andshellac or other suitable material, preferablysuch as will be pliable,to be pressed and fitted to the body of a person while in operation.These plates are electrically connected with the coils on'the magnet bymeans of insulated conductors F, that may vary in'length as desired atone end of the magnet. From the other ends of the coils and magnetextend insulated conductors, to which are connected anodes H, that haveflexible extensions J, adapted for distributing a current advantageouslyto the person upon whom they are placed.

It is obvious that when a patient is properly insulated and my inventionapplied as required for practical use and the frictionplates D rubbedupon the person the electric current produced penetrates one of thecoils on the magnet and by induction extends the current through theother coil, and by means of the anodes electrically connected with thecoils at the other end of the magnet B and the application of the anodesto the person a field is established between the frictionplates and theanodes by that portion of the body of the person that intervenes betweenthe friction-plates and the anodes.

In the practical use of my invention when the friction-plates are rubbedover the bodysurface of a person a limited amount of fric-.

tional electricity is produced and conducted, by means of the plates andthe insulated condoctors and the coils on the magnet, to the anodes andfrom thence distributed to increase the temperature and stimulate thecirculation and nerve force of the patient that is subjected to suchtreatment.

Having described the purpose and construction, arrangement, andcombination of all the elements of my invention, its practical operation and utility will be understood by persons familiar with the art towhich it pertains.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an electric generator and distributer, an insulated friction-plateholder having a handle on its top and a friction-plate and conductor onits bottom, in combination with flexible insulated conductors and coilson a magnet, to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

2. In an electric generator and distributer, an anode having flexibleextensions in combination with flexible insulated conductors and coilson a magnet, to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

stated.

EDWIN LYMAN MADDEN.

Witnesses:

JOHN P. BEARDSLEE, A. O. MADDEN.

